Danger Signal (Warner Bros.) (1945)

WARNER BROS. PICTURES, INC. PRESENTS FAYE EMERSON ZACHARY SCOTT R SIGVAL AWW WAZ = ERDMAN ROSEMARY BRUCE DE CAMP BENNETT FREEMAN DIRECTED BY MONA JOHN RIDGELY ROBERT FLOREY Screen Play by ADELE COMMANDINI and GRAHAM BAKER ° From a Novel by PHYLLIS BOTTOME * Music by ADOLPH DEUTSCH Cast Hilda Fenchurch... FAYE EMERSON Ronnie Marsh...ZACHARY SCOTT Bunkie Taylor............ Dick Erdman Or Sha. Rosemary DeCamp Dr. Andrew tang ore) Bruce Bennett Anne Fenchurch...... Mona Freeman Thomas Turner......... John Ridgely Mrs. Fenchurch......... Mary Servoss Kate. 2 oe Joyce Compton Mrs. Crockett............ Virginia Sale Investigator......... Addison Richards Production Produced by William Jacobs. Directed by Robert Florey. Screen Play by Adele Commandini and Graham Baker; From a Novel by Phyllis Bottome. Photographed by James Wong Howe, A. S. C. Art Director, Stanley Fleischer. Film Editor, Frank Magee. Montages by James Leicester. Sound by Everett Brown. Dialogue Director, Jack Daniels. Special Effects by Harry Barndollar; Director, Edwin Dupar, A. S. C. Set Decorations by Jack McConaghy. Wardrobe by Milo Anderson. Makeup Artist, Pere Westmore. Music by Adolph Deutsch; Orchestral Arrangements by Murray Cutter; Musical Director, Leo Forbstein. Assistant Director, Elmer Decker. 2 | | Terrified | Still 645-528 Mat 103—15c Zachary Scott and Faye Emerson face an unseen danger in Warner Bros.’ gripping new melodrama, ‘Danger Signal,"" which arrives Friday at the Strand. Also featured in the film are Dick Erdman, Rosemary DeCamp and Bruce Bennett. Lipstick Smear Is Prop Problem In one scene of Warner Bros.’ “Danger Signal," now playing at the Strand, star Faye Emerson asks her young sister, Mona Freeman, to explain her smeared lipstick. During the film's preduction, make-up experts tried and tried for an authentic kiss-smear effect. Zachary Scott, who co-stars with Faye Emerson in the film, and who is responsible, according to the plot, for the blur on Mona's enticing lips, finally suggested the real thing. He fcllowed the suggestion with action. In the film, as a result, Mona's lips are perfectly smeared. e Synopsis (Not For Publication) Hilda Fenchurch (Faye Emerson), an attractive public stenographer, takes a hack writer, Ronnie Marsh Until her : a ee ee obit gos meeting with the suave and sop) isticated Rennie, Miida’s (Zachary Scott) into her home as a lodger. life had centered on her mother (Mary Servoss) and her younger sister, Anne (Mona Freeman). Now, like a schoolgirl on a holiday, she falls in love with Ronnie, and he, always the opportunist, reciprocates. Carefully he shields from her family the fact that he is implicated in the death of another man’s wife. It is not long before Anne, a beautiful, gay-spirited youngster, becomes infatuated with Ronnie—and quickly closes her eyes to the knowledge that Hilda also is in love with him. Learning that Anne, not Hilda, is destined to inherit $25,000, Ronnie's platonic interest in Anne gives way to an insincere expression of love. Hilda discovers their sub rosa romance and also proof of Ronnie's dishonesty. Turning against him, she orders him from the house. She is aghast, however, when she learns that Ronnie and Anne plan to marry. Her life, her dreams of love shattered, Hilda deterThrough some work done for a doctor of research (Bruce Bennett}, mines Ronnie shall not destroy Anne's life. she gets the idea of fatally poisoning Ronnie. She lures the writer to the beach home of a friend (Rosemary DeCamp), where she plans to spring her lethal trap. After he has eaten, Ronnie is told he has been poisoned, though, actually, he has not been. Terror-stricken, afraid to die, he wanders out on the beach. He is pursued by a shadowy figure—whom he recognizes as the husband of the woman he killed. In a frantic effort to escape, he tumbles over a bluff to his death in the Pacific. Running Time: 78 Mins. Country of Origin U.S.A. Copyright 1945 Warner Bros. Pictures Distributing Corporation